hang
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“Could we still hang out as friends?” he had asked through tears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
So he managed to hang on - but by less than 0.2 seconds.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
My manager, Herb Nanas, told me to hang in there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
When it comes to financial stocks these days, investors seem most concerned about their ability to attract, and hang on to, customers’ cash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
You hang from your knees, arms spread wide, opening yourself to the place that feels most like home.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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In November, Hasina was found guilty by a Dhaka court of crimes against humanity and sentenced to be hanged -- a verdict she described as "political vengeance dressed up as law".
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
It reminds me of the old joke about the guy in the Wild West who, before he was hanged for horse stealing, said “This will be a real lesson to me,” mournfully, from the scaffold.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
Eichmann - an architect of the Jewish Holocaust - was hanged in 1962, becoming the only person previously sentenced to death by an Israeli civil court.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
Speer was given a 20-year prison sentence while Fritz Sauckel, Hitler’s general plenipotentiary for labor mobilization, was hanged for almost exactly the same crimes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
Fra-gile-ness is mighty embarrassing, even if you’re a girl, so me and Emma both hanged back a little to get the sniffling out of us.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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"We borrowed some microphones, Kevin had built a small computer and we recorded the first album like that, basically just hanging out together," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Companies know the government sword is hanging over them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Tech is hanging in there, and everything else is just falling quite honestly in a straight line,” said Scott Brown, founder at Brown Technical Insights.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
President Donald Trump in April re-posted a claim on X by a pro-Israel youth activist in the United States that eight women faced death by hanging, with the US leader urging them to be spared.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Lucky there was no string of frogs hanging out by the hats this particular morning.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Clancy pleaded not guilty, and her trial recently ended in a mistrial due to a hung jury.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
There was room for a five-month stay in Paris before the midfielder hung up his iconic Preds, winning Ligue 1 and waving an emotional goodbye in 2013.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
He wanted the surprise of artwork hung in an unpredictable fashion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Concerns that Meta is spending unsustainably on AI have hung over the stock in recent months.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
The thought of those cuffs made me smile, and I found my hand going instinctively to my hip, where a set had hung during my simulation.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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